Investment Resources on the Internet

 

 

Annual Report Gallery  

http://www.annualreports.com/

This site provides links to the home pages and annual reports of more than 2,200 companies traded on the U.S. stock exchanges, including most of the Fortune 500.

 

Annual Reports–PRARS 

www.prars.com

This free service lets you order annual reports on more than 3,600 public companies.  Although you can also request documents through an 800 number, the Web site is more convenient because you can request reports for multiple companies.  You can browse company names alphabetically or by industry.  The service is only available for U.S. addresses and you need an e-mail address.

 

Bizjournals.com 

www.bizjournals.com

Access to local business journals.  Full text to selected articles and access to archives is free.

 

Corporate Information  

www.corporateinformation.com

A place to start for locating information on public or private companies around the world.  Arranged by country, this is a resource list of sites. Registration required.

 

Edgar  

www.edgar-online.com

This database contains millions of documents that companies have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Google Finance

www.google.com/finance

A site offering a broad range of information about North American stocks, mutual funds, and public and private companies, along with charts, news, and fundamental financial data.

 

Historical Stock Quotes   

www.bigcharts.com

Especially useful for income tax and estate planning preparation, this tool from BigCharts can provide the closing prices back to January 2, 1985.

 

InvestorGuide  

www.investorguide.com

Comprehensive source of information for the investor, loosely divided into three areas: Investing, Personal Finance, and Learning.

 

MarketWatch 

www.marketwatch.com

This one stop financial site has information to assist picking, tracking or buying stocks, bonds, or mutual funds.

 

MoneyCentral    

http://moneycentral.msn.com

A comprehensive personal finance site.  It offers real-time stock quotes, lists of top mutual funds, as well as a wealth of information on topics including retirement planning.

 

Motley Fool 

www.fool.com

A comprehensive investment resource for small investors.  Includes helpful personal finance information contained in the Fool’s Schools; a good section on “How to Value Stocks”; and message boards, with topics ranging from broker comparisons to industry talk and stock tips.

 

PR Newswire: News and Information

www.prnewswire.com  

A complete and up to the minute six year, archived database of all stories appearing on PR Newswire from participating companies.

 

Silicon Investor 

www.siliconinvestor.com

A source for stock information and historical quotes.

 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Online Publications for Investors

www.sec.gov/investor/pubs.shtml

The Securities and Exchange Commission provides information about saving and investing.  Search by Subject, A-Z list, or keyword.

 

Yahoo Finance 

http://finance.yahoo.com/

Over 500,000 links to help professional and private investors locate economic data and perform fundamental research on actively traded companies as well as stock quotes. Well organized and searchable.

 

Yahoo Finance Annual Reports Service

http://yahoo.ar.wilink.com/asp/YAH1_search_ENG.asp

Free annual reports for over 3,500 companies. Registration required.

 

 

Buena Park Library District

www.buenaparklibrary.org

August 2008